The Ultimate "What is this Fungi?" thread.

[Geoff Dann]

Edible cooked with caution according to wikipedia (due to reaction with alcohol) - have you ever tried them Geoff?

Yes, they're a personal favourite. Benefit from long cooking. Best thing to do with them is put them in the roasting tray with a fatty joint of pork or beef, or a plump chicken and let them "deep fry" for an hour. They can take the punishment and come out tasting delicious.

I've never had a reaction with alcohol - and I drink a lot. Some species of Armillaria are known to cause upsets in some people. These aren't the worst offenders, but people with a sensitive stomach might suffer a bit!

Caps only. Discard the stems.

 

[SteveW]

Thanks for the info guys, sadly I binned it rather than tempt fate, but I will keep an eye out for more now I know what they are.
Nice, the photo was more down to luck than judgement but thanks for the kind words.

I found lots of these on the moor recently. No idea what they are, but the colours are stunning.

 

[demographic]

Thanks for the info guys, sadly I binned it rather than tempt fate, but I will keep an eye out for more now I know what they are.
Nice, the photo was more down to luck than judgement but thanks for the kind words.

I found lots of these on the moor recently. No idea what they are, but the colours are stunning.

Scarlet Waxcaps?

 

[Geoff Dann]

Looks like Hygrocybe punicea

 

[Harvestman]

I don't expect an identification on this wax cap. I just want to show it. I haven't seen one like it before.

 

[Geoff Dann]

I found some just like that last week. Eventually decided the most likely candidate was aurantiosplendens.

 

[SteveW]

I found these and thought fairy ring champignon, but are the gills to close together? All the pictures I have seen have them well spaced. The cap has an almost metallic sheen to it.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Definitely not M. oreades. Looks like an Inocybe and very likely to be poisonous. Gills are the wrong colour.

 

[SteveW]

Thanks Geoff, I binned em after taking the picture, but I confess I was in two minds as to what they may be.

 

[mercurykev]

I stumbled across these when out on a forage today. Could they be Deathcaps? It doesn't show up well on the photo but the cap had a slight greenish tinge. One thing I couldn't see evident was a bulb at the base of the stem. Anyone got an idea of what they are?

 

[Geoff Dann]

You can see the remains of the volva at the bottom of the stem of the bottom picture. Deathcaps, by the look of them.

 

[Harvestman]

Well I would say they are Amanita somethingnasty, but I will leave it to Geoff to be definitive.

 

[Harvestman]

You can see the remains of the volva at the bottom of the stem of the bottom picture. Deathcaps, by the look of them.

Or he can beat me to it.

 

[mercurykev]

Thanks for the confirmation. It's the first time that I've came across them - they are actually a quite nice looking mushroom.

 

[Harvestman]

Thanks for the confirmation. It's the first time that I've came across them - they are actually a quite nice looking mushroom.

They are. Just stop at looking.

 

[mountainm]

Today's finds

 

[Harvestman]

Well the top one is a shaggy ink cap or Lawyer's wig. The middle is a Russula of some sort. Don't know the last one.

 

[Harvestman]

Actually there may be two species in that second shot. The ones on the right look like Russula, the ones on the left don't.

 

[Geoff Dann]

Bottom one looks like Clitocybe odora, but that's a bit of a guess without seeing the whole mushroom and smelling it.

 

[Harvestman]

Here's one or two that I wouldn't mind an opinion on Geoff

Two views of the same fungus. Possibly Amanita excesla var. spissa? (someone else's suggestion. I thought it was a blusher).

Amanita citrina? Only shot, and I didn't smell it or anything)

Don't know

I have these (terrible picture I know) as Blackening Russula, R. nigricans, but they might be old charcoal burners, and I even wondered about Ugly Milk cap L. turpis. Any opinion, however vague?

Thanks, regardless.